Glowing Pipes

I have two magazines that are on my must have list while using Photoshop. Photoshop Creative and Imagine FX I only get issues once in a while but they are the ones that I feel will help me the most on my current projects. I recently picked up issue 96 of Photoshop Creative because it had two specific tutorials that I felt would help me with the completion of my mermaid picture. Tutorial one that interests me is Underwater Edits and the second tutorial that made me pick up the issue was Paint with Light. As I am trying to create a bio-luminescence effect on the mermaid herself I decided to start with that tutorial, however, I did not want to attempt the effect on the mermaid until I became comfortable with using the effect on something else. That is why I created something to test myself on first.

Glowing Pipes

Using a 5X7 canvas in Photoshop CS6 I used the line tool to create an outline from there I merged the lines that created one corner of the canvas after that I used the lasso tool on the portions I wanted filled and alternated the gradient fill. Then I arranged the triangles that I created the way I felt they best filled the canvas. Then for each layer I chose to put a stroke blending layer effect and an outer glow effect, keeping the stroke color the lighter of the two colors and the outer glow the darker color with a opacity level of 75%. It's called Glowing Pipes because when it was just in black and white the image looked like steel pipes, I thought that cyan hues, and pink hues worked best for this pattern and had the best glow effect.

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